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A day or so passes without anything further, long enough that you begin to wonder if you had made some mistake such as ordering from the wrong stall. Your concerns are put to rest when you return to your lodgings the next afternoon to find Mikail biting into a furred fruit, an entire elaborately decorated basket of the things sitting on the table next to him.
<span class="mu-i">“So my order arrived, I take it?”</span> You comment wryly, your squire staring at you in dismay.
<span class="mu-i">“You orvhered dese?”</span> Mikail manages to crumb out, mouth still very full. <span class="mu-i">“I vought vey were comphdimendery.”</span>
<span class="mu-i">“Complimentary fruit baskets. At a Comitas pilgrim lodge?”</span> You give your squire a long-suffering look. The boy really does sometimes say the damndest things.
Mikail gulps guilty, but said guilt is entirely short-lived the moment you gesture for him to help himself to another. He does at least bring the note found at the bottom of the basket to your attention though. Written in Cantonian, it isn’t hard to decipher the real meaning. Unless you are Mikail perhaps, the boy’s dismal literary education is his main drawback as a squire.
<span class="mu-i">Valued Customer, our humble servants will return later this week to collect the basket and take any further orders. We welcome any feedback, especially in written format. We forever aspire to improve our service!</span>
So this will be the primary means of forwarding correspondence, ostensibly as one merchant writing to another back home.
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> What are the subjects that report to Sir Gilbern thus far? List each one specifically, not just ‘everything’. The more subjects you report on, the more letters you’ll need to send.
(i.e. Do you mention the suspected SoS prison or the rogue medusae?)
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>How do you disguise the subject as if you were one merchant writing to another? I will assume each subject warrants its own coded correspondence on a different day.
(e.g. We talk about what spices are available in stock to disguise our report on diplomatic relations between Cathagi other nations) Verbatim write-ins are not necessary, but particularly clever analogies written in will net bonuses IF your letters are intercepted.
